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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2007 Jun 8;65(6):1235–1248. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.04.029

Table 4. Multivariable logistic regression model for self-reported transactional sex with casual partners among 1,288 sexually active men aged 15-26 participating in the Stepping Stones HIV Prevention Study in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Giving to Casual Partners Getting from Casual Partners
Model 1: Predictors Model 2: Predictors & Correlated Behavior Model 1: Predictors Model 2: Predictors & Correlated Behavior
Variable OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Demographics
Age1 1.17 1.06 1.28 1.11 1.01 1.22 0.95 0.84 1.09 0.91 0.79 1.05
10 or more years education -- --
Ever earned money (Respondent) 1.92 1.37 2.69 1.61 1.13 2.30 1.70 1.03 2.79 --
Socioeconomic status (Household) 1 1.13 1.01 1.27 -- 1.24 1.04 1.46 --
Early Sex and Child Trauma
First sex under age 15 1.70 1.21 2.37 -- -- --
Childhood Trauma Scale1 1.24 1.07 1.43 -- 1.26 1.05 1.52 --
Ever coerced into sex by a man 2.21 1.05 4.67 -- -- --
Attitudes and Be liefs
Exposure to Media1 1.31 1.05 4.67 1.34 1.03 1.74 1.51 1.03 2.19 --
Peer Pressure Resistance1 0.73 0.62 0.86 0.77 0.65 0.91 0.68 0.54 0.86 0.74 0.58 0.95
Gender relationships and control1 -- -- -- --
Sexual Partners and Alcohol
Partners in lifetime2 1.25 1.13 1.38 1.26 1.13 1.41
Alcohol problem 1.61 1.13 2.29 --
Perpetration of GBV
Ever perpetration of emotional abuse -- 2.33 1.32 4.12
IPV: None 1.00 ref 1.00 ref
 Physical IPV only 2.26 1.55 3.27 1.29 0.70 2.36
 Sexual IPV only 1.74 0.79 3.84 1.92 0.67 5.51
 Both physical and sexual IPV 5.63 3.06 10.35 2.77 1.27 6.01
Non-IPV sexual assault 1.61 1.10 2.35 2.24 1.33 3.77
1

per one unit increase in age or score

2

per increase of 5 lifetime partners